Re: Packaging questions

[Paul Lange]

 Am Donnerstag, den 29.01.2009, 20:07 +0100 schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: 
>  Le jeudi 29 janvier 2009 à 15:30 -0300, Paul Lange a écrit :
>  > Hey,
>  > 
>  > I'm currently reading all that packaging stuff and start working on my 
>  > first font. I've chosen Tagesschrift from the wishlist, you can find the 
>  > webiste here: http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/tagesschrift/
>  > 
>  > If I don't explain my problems well you can find my current status here: 
>  > http://palango.fedorapeople.org/
>  > 
>  > Well, first some questions to fontconfig. Tagesschrift is a serif font, 
>  > but I'm not sure if I should declare its family as serif or fantasy 
>  > because it's a kind of distorted.
>  
>  When you have a doubt if a font is rather fantasy or something else,
>  that usually means the font is fantasy. Also you can check in fontforge
>  what the font author declared (ctrl+e)
>  
>  Here you'll see the OS/2 PFM family is set to "Decorative" which is
>  another name for "Fantasy". 
 
OK, changed this. FontForge also says the version is 1.0 should I use
this or the release date like now? 

>  >  The other thing is the numeral prefix. 
>  > I set it to 60 because it's latin but I'm not sure if it's not more a 
>  > low priority font (means 61-64).
>  
>  I'd have put it to 63-64 because it has no bold/italic variants so it's
>  better to let more complete fonts resolve first. 
 
Well, makes sense to me. Changed.

>  >  Like to hear your opinion on that two 
>  > things.
>  > 
>  > I'm coming to the .spec file now. Everything is clear until the %setup 
>  > -q command. Do I need to make any changes to this because the archive is 
>  > a zip rather than a tar.gz archive?
>  
>  %setup will process most of the well-known archive formats
>  automatically. It's not limited to zip.
>  
>  What it can't do is guess if upstream used the sane convention of using
>  a top directory named the same way as the archive or something else. If
>  you're in the "something else" case you need to pass some flags to %
>  setup manually
>  
>  http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-macros.html
>  
>  %setup is about the only part of the template that must be changed in a
>  case-by-case basis depending on how upstream packed its sources.
>  
>  > Next section is the %install command. This is really difficult for me. 
>  > How can I find out where all this variables (_fontdir, 
>  > _fontconfig_templatedir, ...) are pointing to?
>  
>  You're not supposed to. The variables are right as they are. As
>  documented in
>  
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Simple_fonts_spec_template
>  
>  you have at most the *.ttf to change in the %install section, if your
>  fonts are located in a subdirectory and not directly in the root
>  directory of the archive. 
 
Well, that's clear now.
I built my package now and rpmls says the following (which looks good to me):

 
        $ rpmls yanone-tagesschrift-fonts-20050524-1.fc10.noarch.rpm 
        lrw-r--r--  /etc/fonts/conf.d/64-yanone-tagesschrift.conf
        -rw-r--r--  /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/64-yanone-tagesschrift.conf
        drwxr-xr-x  /usr/share/fonts/yanone-tagesschrift
        -rw-r--r--  /usr/share/fonts/yanone-tagesschrift/YanoneTagesschrift.ttf
        
 
but rpmlint has 2 warning for me:
 
        yanone-tagesschrift-fonts.noarch: W: no-documentation
        yanone-tagesschrift-fonts.noarch: W: symlink-should-be-relative
/etc/fonts/conf.d/64-yanone-tagesschrift.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/64-yanone-tagesschrift.conf
        
 
How to handle them?

Thank you in advance!

Paul